Men at her poker night, men in her football pool, men on her sports teams . . .

Basically, Steinberg’s the anti-Carrie Bradshaw – she regularly hangs with a closeknit group of friends, but they’re all men. And although Steinberg has always considered herself the odd woman out, suddenly it seems she’s got the “it” lifestyle.

A new sitcom on TBS, “My Boys,” follows the life of a female sportswriter in Chicago (Jordana Spiro) whose best friends are all guys. And, earlier this week, Variety reported that Sandra Bullock is slated to star in a new movie, “One of the Guys,” about a woman with an all-male social circle.

For years, “Sex and the City” has been the prevailing pop-cultural model for single New York women: When you’re not out on a date, you’re with your close girlfriends (more often than not, rehashing your last disastrous date).

But Steinberg, 29, thinks the whole “girls night out” thing is, frankly, kind of a drag. Rather than sip cocktails in a trendy bar, she prefers to spend an evening kicked back on the couch, watching the game.

This is not an activity that generally appeals to women – and that’s just fine by her.

“When I hang out with guys, we can drink some beers, shoot the s – – t,” she says. “With girls, there’s always some sort of drama.” The single Steinberg says she’s reliably the only female attendee at these sorts of gatherings.

A high school guidance counselor by day, she says one of the things she most appreciates is not having to spend her evenings doing relationship analysis.

“If guys have an issue, it’s a quick complaint – not, like, hours of ‘What was she thinking? What should I have said?’ ” she says with a laugh.

Being a nongirly girl can seem a bit of an oddity in New York, where Manolos pass for reasonable footwear and boyfriend hunting is the female sport of choice. But Steinberg and her ilk have some newfound reinforcement in “My Boys.” “I feel like someone’s been following me around with a camera!” says Steinberg. “It’s bizarre.” The sitcom’s creator, Betsy Thomas, says it’s high time someone shone the spotlight on women who run with guys.

“I felt like there were a lot of women like me out there,” says Thomas. “I’ve always loved sports, and not been particularly girly, and I just sort of thought there was a big chunk of the female population that was under-represented.” The show hinges on an issue that’s plagued Thomas, Steinberg and countless others like them:

how to incorporate a boyfriend into one’s group of friends-who-are-boys.

“I feel like it’s a big turnoff to have that many guy friends,” says Steinberg. “All my guy friends are like, ‘You’re so fun, you’re so low maintenance, why don’t you have a boyfriend?’ Then I meet a new guy, and it’s like, ‘You’re too much of a guy.’ ” The pressure to go girly can be fierce – especially here. Take it from Lisa Helfer, a longtime Chicagoan who recently moved to Manhattan.

She’s always considered herself more of a guys’ girl, but “here, I find myself going out more with girlfriends, doing girly-type things, dinners or shopping,” she says.

But back in Chicago, Helfer says, weekends revolved around dodge ball and pitchers of beer, not manicures and brunch.

“We’d play sports, then go to a bar,” she says nostalgically. “I’d be the only girl playing Golden Tee with all the guys. It was great.”